Description
Mahrem-Illustrated Special Edition Book Description: Elif Şafak's Mahrem, published in 2000 and one of the most admired books of our literature since the day it was published, tells the trauma-filled life and mental state of a socially excluded young woman. In Mahrem, we meet a young woman who feels always on the edge, always under surveillance. A woman who always feels other than herself because of her obesity, who eats constantly and vomits up what she eats... But she also has a story behind the weight that shields her body. It's a sad story. A story of abuse he experienced when he was a child. Parallel to the protagonist's story, Mahrem's fairy-tale narrative takes us first to Pera in 1885, to Keramet Mumi Keşke Memiş Efendi's tent full of different, mysterious women; It then takes us to France of the same period and then to Siberia in 1648. One of the women presented for viewing in Keşke Memiş Efendi's tent is the Sable Girl, whose story goes all the way back to Siberia. And also the beautiful La belle Annabelle... Mahrem, whose fairy-tale narration skillfully connects inter-era stories with the Nazar Dictionary that expands the possibilities of the language, is essentially the story of a young woman whose soul was damaged at a very young age. Mahrem, which is considered to be one of the novels that use the elements of magical realism in the best way in our literature, was greatly appreciated by the literary circles when it was published and has been translated into many languages since then. Kirkus Reviews described the book as “A text about misfits and how society views them”; The Independent newspaper described Elif Şafak as "an important heiress of Isabel Allende" due to the literary mastery she demonstrated in this novel. Mahrem, on the 25th anniversary of Elif Şafak's writing, with its new cover and special drawings for the book by the distinguished painter and artist Huban Korman Mahrem, like many Elif Şafak novels, is a novel about the loneliness of fragile people. It is a text that touches the reader's soul about seeing and being seen. (From the Promotional Bulletin)
This work, published by Doğan Kitap and written by Elif Şafak, is now on Dünyada Kitap.